Fothergill's Nasturtium Trailing Mixed Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Tropaeolum majus, a highly reliable and traditional favourite celebrated for its heavy flowering performance.
• Plant Class: Hardy Annual, establishing with incredible speed from seed to deliver an abundance of colour and foliage within a single season.
• Fiery Colour Spectrum: Bears a cheerful, high-impact mix of fiery reds, rich oranges, and bright sunshine yellows held cleanly against crisp green foliage.
• Dual-Purpose Edible Crop: A fantastic addition to a kitchen garden; both the decorative flowers and rounded leaves are completely edible, offering a crisp, peppery flavour similar to radishes or watercress.
• Growth & Structure: Reaches an impressive trailing or climbing length of up to 180cm (72in), creating a dense, bushy, and fast-spreading framework.
• Wildlife Magnet: The wide, open blooms are packed with sweet nectar, making them highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and other essential garden pollinators.
• Versatile Garden Layout: Perfect for training up vertical trellises and fences to create a seasonal privacy screen, cascading elegantly out of hanging baskets, or trailing over retaining walls and borders as a dense groundcover.
• Ideal Position: Performs at its absolute best when positioned in full sun and grown in poorer, well-drained soil.

Care Instructions:

• Sowing Location: For an early summer display, sow seeds indoors in individual small pots of moist compost from late winter to mid-spring. Alternatively, sow directly outdoors where they are to flower into finely prepared, weed-free soil once the ground has warmed in spring.
• Watering Requirements: Maintain light, regular watering during early germination and establishment; once mature, the plants are notably drought-tolerant and require minimal watering.
• Plant Care: Choose an area with poor or average soil and avoid applying nitrogen-rich fertilisers. Leaner soils actively encourage the plant to produce a heavy abundance of single flowers cleanly above the leaves, rather than hiding them beneath excess lush green foliage.